* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkham and Wesham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

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There were originally two platforms, but work in 2017 and 2018, added a third. There are fairly obvious signs of the former size of the station in the form of disused sidings areas and blocked-off arches. The station ticket office is at street level with two staircases leading down to the platforms. Originally a cast iron and glass roof covered the platforms similar to that at Poulton-le-Fylde station. This was removed in the 1960s. In 2018 lifts were also installed.[2]

Fast lines used to run from Kirkham North Junction (located a half a mile to the west of the station) to what was known as Kirkham South Junction - just east of the station allowing through trains to pass without running through the platforms. These were the last vestige of the four track which originally started at Preston and were removed during remodelling work in 2017 to allow for a third platform and a faster alignment of the remaining and new lines
As part of the works, all of the disused sidings were removed.
The signalbox at Kirkham North Junction was opened in 1903 and had over 70 levers and was worked by two signalmen and a train recorder. A framed summary in the box detailed the total number of train movements there in a 24-hour period in July 1936 as 656 - the vast majority of these would have been connected with the Blackpool holiday trade.

The station, opened in 1840, was originally located to the west of Station Road and named Kirkham Station.
In 1890, it was rebuilt on the east side of the road[3] and later renamed Kirkham and Wesham. Historically the "Wrangway Brook", beside which the railway was laid, has always been the boundary between Kirkham and Wesham, and the station buildings are all situated in Kirkham.

Two tracks were built on the northern side of the line for a platform planned but never built due to the outbreak of World War II.

Kirkham Station signalbox which was located in between the Up (Salwick bound) Fast and the Down Fast line was demolished during resignalling operations in 1977. The same scheme also abolished Treales signalbox.

In March 2011 the station was given a makeover with a major modernisation and refurbishment of the staircase. In 2017-2018 it is being given another major refurbishment as part of the electrification programme.

The station has a street-level ticket office, which is manned throughout the week (06:40-17:45 Monday to Saturdays, 09:00-16:15 Sundays).[4] A self-service ticket machine has also been installed for use when the booking office is closed or to collect pre-paid tickets. Waiting shelters are in place at platform level, along with digital CIS displays and timetable posters. There was no step-free access to the platforms, but new lifts were installed as part of the Preston to Blackpool electrification scheme.

As part of GNRP - Great North Rail Project and NPR - Northern Powerhouse Rail, the line from Manchester to Blackpool North was approved by the government for electrification. It was originally approved in 2009 [5] The opportunity was taken to completely renew the signaling of the line and rebuild and improve stations along the line including Kirkham and Wesham. A big chunk of the work was done in a blockade. The plans have seen the track layout remodelled (with the non-platform lines removed), a third platform added, the footbridge rebuilt, new signalling installed and the route from Preston - Blackpool North electrified. The route to Blackpool South has not been electrified. The work at the station started in mid 2017 with a total blockade from Preston to Blackpool North and South starting in November 2017 and completed in April 2018, in time for the May 2018 timetable change.[6] The station reopened with service to Blackpool South on 29 January 2018, but reopening of the line to Blackpool North was pushed back to 16 April 2018, as a result of bad weather and maintenance issues with one of the infrastructure trains being used in the upgrade works.[7]

Since the May 2018 timetable change, the station is served by the EMUs running from Blackpool North to Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Airport via Wigan North Western (hourly on each route), plus the Preston to Blackpool South branch service. The latter originates from Ormskirk but runs in the opposite direction to Colne (for operational reasons); this also operates hourly.

On Sundays there are hourly services to Manchester Airport, Liverpool Lime Street and to Blackpool South & Colne, plus two tph to Blackpool North.[8]

Virgin Trains operate four trains on weekdays between Blackpool North and London Euston. Alliance Rail has been given permission to run six trains a day from London to Blackpool North from 2018, with conditional permission for a stop at Kirkham and Wesham dependent upon future capacity after infrastructural work.[9]